3: Dictionary microstructure: types of information

Points for discussion:

1. Are the types of lexical information which are typically organised into a lexical microstructure simply a list of simple chunks of information?
2. If not, do the chunks of information have internal structure?
3. What is a homonym and how is it handled in typical dictionaries? Find examples in actual dictionaries and discuss these.
4. Which words have the most homonyms?
5. Can the types of lexical information in a typical microstructure be grouped in any sensible way, or are they basically unrelated?
6. Check the items in the reference literature, in particular look for the classical paper by Charles Fillmore, which is still very much worth reading.
7. Look for other `web classes' on this topic.

After these points have been discussed I shall summarise, referring to a theory of lexical signs.